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The judge is up for election in 2025: https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Ming-Mei_Lee https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Ming-Mei_Lee Time to swap her out!
by outside1234 4y ago
The judge is up for election in 2025: https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Ming-Mei_Lee https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Ming-Mei_Lee
Time to swap her out!
- astrange 4y agoShe's not wrong, it's because the law is bad. It'd be better to fix the law. CEQA and NEPA are bad ideas in the first place; they were designed by environmentalists to slow down bad projects, but instead they just slow down everything. Other countries don't make you write 300 page reports and get sued by all your neighbors to install solar panels. In the meantime, this can be appealed.
- benj111 4y agoYou elect judges??? Who in hell thought that was a good idea?
- erehweb 4y agoThe Progressive movement of the early 1900s - see e.g. Pg 4 of https://www.ca-ilg.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/unit_1.pdf?1564533410 https://www.ca-ilg.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/uni...
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoDo you think the outcomes on, say, the US Supreme Court are better?
- thebigman433 4y agoWhat do you think is a better way of doing it? Elections seem like the most fair way to me
- benj111 4y agoFair? Every politician ever says they're tough on crime, and this basically turns judges into politicians. I don't want a judge that's tough on crime, I want a judge that's impartial. I want a judge judging a case purely on its merits, not with one eye on the upcoming election, and what's popular with voters. I don't know how it's done elsewhere. Probably selection by peers, some kind of veto from the government? You need someone capable of assessing the quality of someone's judgements. The general public ain't it.
- rqtwteye 4y agoInstead of being angry at judges in a lot of cases it would be better if the laws were designed better.